An overview of the slow movements from Bruckner‘s nine Symphonies; in celebration of his birth date (4 September 1824) the great breadth of which has always astonished and deeply moved me.
First Symphony in c minor:
Second Symphony in c minor:
Third Symphony in d minor:
Fourth Symphony in E♭ major:
Fifth Symphony in B♭ major:
Sixth Symphony in A major:
Seventh Symphony in E major:
Eighth Symphony in c minor:
Ninth Symphony in d minor:
As there are two other symphonies Bruckner “cancelled out” there are two additional adagios:
The first is from the Study Symphony in f minor, often called the “doppelnull” or 00th symphony and labelled by Bruckner himself as “Schularbeit”:
The second from the “zeroeth” symphony in d minor. An unkind comment from the conductor Otto Dessoff (“but, where is the main theme?”) reportedly caused the insecure Bruckner to scrawl on the manuscript the words “gilt nicht” and “annullirt”:
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Today in the year 1770, Ludwig van Beethoven was born unto the world. I would like to offer a brief insight in this complicated man‘s personality through a few of his letters. On the one hand, Beethoven‘s music is nothing short of God-given, while on the other he was a man who...
...routinely dismissed his servants because he thought they were spying on him and rarely shied back from driving a hard bargain with his publishers.
Now, for a few extracts, the first is part of the famous letter to the “unsterbliche Geliebte”:
MY ANGEL! MY ALL! MY SECOND SELF!
Only a few words to-day, written with a pencil (your own). My residence cannot be settled till to-morrow. What a tiresome loss of time! Why this deep grief when necessity compels?—can our love exist without sacrifices,...
What makes some harmonies consonant and others dissonant? The answer to this question must be found in the very constitution of chords and the relationship between their notes. A brief reflection:
The impression we have of either consonance or dissonance is derived from the natural makeup of the tone with all its overtones. Only the closest overtones generate consonant chords whereas the dissonant chords are based on the more remote overtones.
Briefly put: our awareness that the physical purity of the tone is infringed upon has a direct effect on our understanding of the harmony.
Today is the birthday of one of the most extraordinary musical minds that has ever touched down upon the soil of our earth.
In 1770, in the German city of Bonn
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
Was born into this world.
Today, I would like to tell his extraordinary life story.
This is the house where Beethoven was born; at the time, it housed several families, among which were Beethoven‘s parents, Johann and Maria Magdalena in 1770.
Beethoven‘s upbringing was a harsh one; as his father Johann was an alcoholic and often beat young Ludwig whenever he was to practice at the keyboard, insulting him whenever he made a mistake. On more than one occasion locked him into the cellar
What is sonata form? For many people, the term sounds perhaps daunting, associated with the loftiest flights of imagination as it is, and with musical minds of the greatest renown, like Beethoven, Brahms, Haydn and Mozart.
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In a structural sense, however, sonata form is not too hard to explain—especially seeing that I have already spent so many words on other forms of a similar construction.
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The sonata form is a ternary form. In essence, therefore, it differs not significantly from any other ternary form; not from the simple ternary form, not from the minuet or scherzo and neither from the rondo forms.
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1917: I see you as someone who is averse to most contemporary fads and trends. This is something I deeply admire because too many people have no more regard for the beauty of tradition of the past. I am happy to find in you a person who does possess this sense of nostalgia.
9: your Tweets encourage me to reflect on the music I love, and inspires me to look beyond the music I know. Sometimes you propound fascinating riddles, and your posts make me look further in music. You certainly are an enrichment to my timeline!